Let's finally move to the ISO 216 standard for paper!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
OMG this.
Oh please let's
But, hear me out.... PC LOAD A4 just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I've put every 4 I can find I'm, but it just doesn't work! It seemed especially angry at the fridge magnet ones.
I was a little confused by the paper sizes when I moved to Japan, but it makes so much sense. I love it now.
When someone asks your height, you answer in centimeters.
I mean, I can without hesitating. We all should be able to.
Howabout meters? 180cm = 1.8m
Centimetres are more commonly used to measure height (e.g., on official government issued IDs)
And honestly the accuracy doesn't hurt here. 170cm vs. 180 is a pretty big difference in how tall someone seems.
Yes, obsessing over centimetres is unhealthy.
I know what you're getting at 😆
Honestly it's just easier for me anyway, because I'm like a quarter short of an inch. If I round down people get confused since they're used to the numbers being padded on top of everything, and if I round up I'm padding the numbers myself.
I went to the states a couple years back. Went to a tavern and was deciding on a beer. Bartender overhears I'm Canadian and tells me the size of the pints in decilitres 🙄
For what it's worth, I'm pretty comfortable with FL oz from reading soda cans and stuff. I just find it crazy how unintuitive metric is to some.
I appreciated his effort, I just thought it was funny
Decilitre is actually the common unit for drinks in Hungary (and possibly in other countries). Hungarians also use dekagramm, which is 10 grams. But the cool thing about metric is that to convert, you just move the decimal around!
A lot of my European beer glasses have dL on them. Offhand I can think of duchesse (Belgium), and Delirium Tremens (also Belgium). Okay, maybe it's just beers from Belgium, I'd have to take a look.
"I'd have to take a look."
Sounds like you have booked a special evening in the pub: "Can I try the next beer please?"
Haha. It's for purely scientific research.
The cool thing is, it's still an easy conversion to bring it back to a familiar unit!
To be fair, pints in the US are 95 mL smaller than pints in Canada, so it's at least a good reminder.
The states has this funny thing where when they do use metric, like in medicine, they often still use weird-ass nonstandard metric options, like decilitres. I imagine if they eventually switch their unit of weight is going to be something like "well, one fornoy is exactly how much a litre of crude oil weighs"
I hate fucking fl.oz. I understand cups, teaspoons and tablespoons, but then there's the odd recipe that uses 'fl.oz.' and I always have to go look it up.
Yeah, what the hell is a florida ounce anyway?
An ounce of fentanyl
When did Florida make their own standard oz?
That's just ridiculous. The pint is a measurement unit in itself. The fact that the bartender didn't seem to be aware of that fact is a failure of the imperial system in itself, though not really a surprise since the system relies entirely on memorizing arbitrary values that have no connection with other units.
Though admittedly, the US pint is smaller than the British pint, so there is justification of pointing that out.
Let's move to metric time!
1000 milliseconds in a second
100 seconds in a minute
100 minutes in an hour
100 hours in a day
100 days in a month
100 months in a year.
We'd be so young!
[EDIT] Guys, I thought it was obvious I was saying this in jest... My b
The French actually tried it, here's the Wikipedia article.
A more reasonable thing to do is something like Swatch Internet Time, you get 1000 ".beats" in a day with no time zones. Beyond a day it might not be too helpful to keep decimal, there will be 365+fraction days a year no matter how you measure it.
I think this is what Phantasy Star Online used back in the day!
Yeah, unfortunately for time we're tied to space-stuff. A day will always be useful, so will a year. A lunar month is not as useful as it once was, probably not necessary as a primary unit.
Well, if you're on Earth, anyway.
Seconds are already an SI unit. We'd have to redo every textbook, and overcome centuries of work.
One day is a Dec, 10 Decs in a Wec, 10 Wecs in a Mec and 100 Mecs in a Yec. Your days are split into Ceti-decs and Micro-decs!
It's so unhinged, I love it. Need to write a calendar app and clock for it.
Lemmy is serious business!
Didn't downvote but TPO my dude
[French revolution intensifies]
Unfortunately with dates you also want to incorporate the natural cycles of the earth and sun, which not only aren't decimal but usually incommensurable, so it's a hard thing to do. The French just had a block of their calendar that didn't count as "real" days IIRC.
If we start seriously going to space, doing everything by Unix epoch (count of seconds since the 60's ended) would make sense, and planning your day might well go by kiloseconds. Someone on here suggested giving up on standardised time zones and just doing everything long-distance that way even on Earth, which grew on me as an idea.
Starting from 1 year being 365 days
1 month would be the equivalent of 3.65 days
1 day would be 52.5 minutes
1 hour would be 31.5 seconds
1 minute would be 0.3 seconds
1 second would be 3 milliseconds
1 millisecond would be 3 nanoseconds
Metric system is meant for clever people.
Not really, the system itself is clever but it's made for everyone, very simple to use.
If they bother to understand it that is. Base 10 is so simple for metric don't know why we haven't adopted it everywhere, I say that knowing weight in pounds and height in feet / inches, cause who wants to convert everything? But still, would have been better to understand that way from school teachings and used Canada wide.
The system is made for those who create and those who don't know which way to hold an hammer. and it works, that's the beauty of it.
Imperial is just made for peasants in 870s and people who are on still on that level of education.
Can we get the UK on board with this as well? (Maybe when they rejoin the EU? And let's drive on the same site of the road as 98% of the planet while we're on it).
Other than miles most of our stuff is metric anyway, at least legally. Like yeah, we use stones and feet for 'human' measurements in speech etc but if you go to the doctors it would be in kilos and metres. There are a few oddities like milk bottles being in pints and beer in pubs but even then you find things like plant milks and bottles/canned beer in litres. The one that really makes no sense is car fuel efficiency. We sell fuel by the litre but measure it in miles per (imperial) gallon - so it doesnt even tie up with American figures.
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